Resources

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship has created a variety of print and video materials to support the theoretical and practical work of democracy. Contact the center at sabocenter@augsburg.edu to order books, pamphlets and DVDs.

Resources on Civic Agency:

Cognitive Psychology and Executive Function

Adele Diamond and Kathleen Lee. “Interventions Shown to Aid Executive Function Development in Children 4 to 12 Years Old.” Science 333, 959 (2011);

Philip David Zelazo and Stephanie M. Carlson. “Hot and Cool Executive Function in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Plasticity.” Child Development Perspectives, (2012) Volume 6: 354–360.

Stephanie M. Carlson. “Development of Conscious Control and Imagination,” in Free Will and Consciousness (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Philip Zelazo. The development of conscious control in childhood. Trends in Cognitive SciencesVol.8 No.1 January 2004

John P. Spencer, “Reflections of a Civic Scientist,” in Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities, ed. Harry C. Boyte (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015)

John Dewey, “Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us,” in John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953, vol. 14 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998)

Harry Boyte, “Reinventing Citizenship as Public Work,” in Democracy’s Education: A Symposium on Power, Public Work, and the Meaning of Citizenship, ed. Harry C. Boyte (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.)

Aaron Schultz. “Power and Trust in the Public Realm: John Dewey, Saul Alinsky, and the limits of Progressive Democratic Education.” Educational Theory (2011) 61: 491-512. and Harry Boyte’s response “Community Organizing and the Next Stage of Democracy” [online] at Academia.edu.